World's cardinals meet for sex abuse talks

World's cardinals meet for sex abuse talks. [headline in the Montreal Gazette, courtesy of Agence France-Presse]


Honing their techniques?

Mounties Catch Piggy Bank Burglar

Mounties in the Sardis Park neighbourhood of Vancouver have caught the burglar who was breaking into homes and stealing the change out of children's piggy banks. [Postmedia News]. Perhaps he was always short of change for those pesky parking meters.

Now that he's been caught imagine how relieved are The Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.

Driving interferes with reading a book

A car driver on the 401 highway in Ontario was charged with careless driving after being pulled over for reading a book while his car "straddled the centre (road) line." [Agence France-Presse]

And you thought modern technology had spelled the book's death knell.

Teen Throws Kitchen Knife at Mother

A 14-year-old boy in Winnipeg, Manitoba was so upset with his mother driving drunk that, to stop her, he threw a kitchen knife at her. [Toronto Star].It struck her in the upper body. Police charged the boy with aggravated assault. The mother is recovering in hospital.


Do you think she got the point?

Only on Air Canada You Say? Pity.

A British professor was alarmed that Air Canada left him to sleep way after his flight from Calgary to Vancouver had landed.

Kris Lines of Staffordshire University was not amused to be awoken by a mechanic after his Air Canada Jazz plane was towed into a hanger. The professor of sports law had apparently been snoozing for 90 minutes. [Montreal Gazette, April7, 2010]


So? New slogan for Air Canada? "Let sleeping profs lie"?